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Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland, a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence.

1966, NYC: Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls hits the bookstores and she is desperate for a bestseller. It’s steamy, it’s a page-turner, but will it make the big money she needs? In London, Jackie Collins’s racy The World Is Full of Married Men launches her career. But neither author is prepared for the price they will pay for being women who dare to write about sex. Jacqueline and Jackie are lambasted by the literary establishment, deluged with hate mail, and even condemned by feminists. In public, both women shoulder the outcry with dignity; in private, they are crumbling.

Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She’s in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here: iconoclast and independent woman. Rebecca Godfrey’s Peggy is a blazingly fresh interpretation of a woman who defies every expectation to become an original. The daughter of two Jewish dynasties, Peggy finds her cloistered life turned upside down at fourteen, when her beloved father perishes on the Titanic.

In the vibrant streets of Lavapiés, Madrid, young Iker harbors an ambitious dream: to play for the iconic Real Madrid Football Club. However, a significant challenge stands in his way - his diagnosed scoliosis, which many believe makes the intense world of professional football an unattainable dream for him.

S'innamorano di una sagoma di cartone o di un pretoriano in miniatura, odiano i bambini pur portandoseli in grembo, lasciano una donna ma ne restano imprigionati, vomitano amore e rabbia, si tagliano, tradiscono, si ammalano. Sono alcuni dei personaggi del nuovo, strabiliante libro di Michela Murgia, un romanzo fatto di storie che si incastrano e in cui i protagonisti stanno attraversando un cambiamento radicale che costringe ciascuno di loro a forme inedite di sopravvivenza emotiva. "Una sera ti metti a tavola e la vita che conoscevi è finita."

In the 1950s, Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of a woman named Maria von Trapp. He’s intrigued to learn that she was once a novice who hoped to live quietly as an Austrian nun before her abbey sent her away to teach a widowed baron’s sickly child. What should have been a ten-month assignment, however, unexpectedly turned into a marriage proposal. And when the family was forced to flee their home to escape the Nazis, it was Maria who instructed them on how to survive using nothing but the power of their voices.

A few years after the Wright brothers’ first flight, Bessie was working the Texas cotton fields with her family when an airplane flew over their heads. It buzzed so low she thought she could catch it in her hands. Bessie was fearless. She knew there was freedom in those wings. The daughter of a woman born into slavery, Bessie answers the call of the Great Migration. She moves to Chicago, where she wins the backing of two wealthy, powerful Black men—Robert Abbott, creator and publisher of the Chicago Defender, and Jesse Binga, the founder of Chicago’s first Black bank.

Known as the "Wizard of the Kremlin," the enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a TV producer before becoming a political advisor to Putin, aka "The Czar." After his resignation from this position, legends about him multiply, with no one able to distinguish truth from fiction. Until one night, when he tells his story to the narrator of this book. He immerses us in the heart of the Russian state, where sycophants and oligarchs have been engaging in open warfare, and where Vadim, now the regime's main spin doctor, turns an entire country into an avant-garde political stage.

Rom, 16. Jahrhundert. Michelangelo Buonarotti, der begnadetste Bildhauer seiner Zeit, soll im päpstlichen Auftrag die Decke der Sixtinischen Kapelle gestalten. Nur widerstrebend macht er sich ans Werk. Bald jedoch entflammt seine Leidenschaft und er möchte nicht weniger als das eindrucksvollste Fresko aller Zeiten erschaffen. Verzweifelt kämpft er an gegen abblätternde Farbschichten und die Bösartigkeiten seines Widersachers Bramante. Vor allem jedoch die Leidenschaft für seinen Schüler Aurelio droht ihn zu zerstören.

Five years after the highly publicized trial of Klaus Barbie, the “Butcher of Lyon,” law student Valérie Portheret began her doctoral research into the 108 children who disappeared from Vénissieux fifty years earlier, children who somehow managed to escape deportation and certain death in the German concentration camps. She soon discovers that their rescue was no unexplainable miracle.

From the shattered empire, five kingdoms are emerging. Seleukos, triumphant in the capture of Babylon, now faces the challenge of holding onto his hard-won prize. One-eyed Antigonos and his son are newly reconciled and both hungry for revenge. But Antigonos has foes of his own. Driven by vengeance, widowed Artonis sides with Ptolemy, planning to thwart the one-eyed brute. The key to their success is Herakles, the sixteen-year-old illegitimate son of Alexander. To see him crowned, they will not only need an army but also to eliminate Kassandros, a powerful rival.

Cleo Jaffray was an American. A war in Europe had nothing to do with her. She told herself that right up until the man she loved went missing in Poland and Cleo was forced to turn to the only person who might be able to help—her aunt Daisy, the US Minister to Norway. Daisy Harriman has never shied away from a challenge, be it canvassing for women’s suffrage or driving Red Cross ambulances in WWI, so as only the second woman ambassador, she is determined to prove the naysayers wrong and succeed in her post.

È l'alba, in pieno inverno. Un immenso piroscafo è in partenza dal porto di Genova, diretto in Brasile. Siamo nel 1936 e due donne dall'aspetto dimesso stanno per imbarcarsi in un viaggio verso l'ignoto. La più anziana delle due, accompagnata dalla nuora, è in cerca del proprio figlio, scomparso nel nulla. Le sue tracce si sono perse a Rio De Janeiro, ma un difficile viaggio aspetta le due ingenue viaggiatrici: dovranno addentrarsi nelle immense praterie dell'interno del Brasile.

Renie Lee has climbed the ladder in a man's world to be head of the Story Department at Warner Bros. Studios. Renie is an idealist who believes that "the perfect film" can be created. When she pulls an unproduced stage play set in Morocco out of the slush pile, she has a feeling this one is special, maybe not perfect but special enough to secure her place as an equal to the studio's most powerful men. No one agrees with her until two young studio writers, Julius and Philip Epstein, decide to back Renie's gamble and bring the Morocco story to the screen. Their screenplay's name: Casablanca.

Based on interviews with the protagonist and his medical and police records, Through the Wall dives into the world of an individual who tries to battle out with his conscience and almost loses his sanity due to the voices he hears in his head. Find out how the protagonist falls in love with the girl of his dreams and flees from the police, thinking that he’s a super hero.

G.I. Gurdjieff allows the reader in these narratives to become acquainted with a person that is up to this day to many, who have for instance read his Beelzebub, still an enigma. You will meet a person, who is more often than not, as the esteemed Mulla Nassr Edin would say "into the deepest galoshes that have ever been worn on sweaty feet." In other words, you will meet G.I. Gurdjieff, the human being. The spiritual messages are hidden inside breathtaking adventures and a colorful description of really remarkable men and women and the time before and after the Russian Revolution.

Eine junge Reporterin, die 70er Jahre und die Wahrheit zwischen den Zeilen. München, 1968: Die 21-jährige Alice ergattert ein Volontariat bei einem Münchner Lokalblatt. In der Redaktion lernt Alice das journalistische Schreiben von der Pike auf. Aber in einer Zeit, in der Sexismus Alltag ist, hat Alice es nicht leicht. Die Lage spitzt sich zu, als die junge Redakteurin und alleinerziehende Mutter an einen cholerischen Chef gerät, der seine Untergebenen drangsaliert. Doch je rauer das Arbeitsklima wird, umso mehr vertieft sich der Zusammenhalt unter den wenigen Frauen im Ressort.

La transformación épica de Bilbao a partir de uno de los grandes símbolos de nuestra era: el Guggenheim. El cierre de la trilogía de Bilbao que esperan sus 20.000 lectores Alberto Cepeda regresa a Bilbao después de un exilio de diez años al que se vio forzado por las amenazas de ETA a sus padres, unos de los miles de emigrantes que llegaron a Vizcaya en los años sesenta. En 1993, contratado por el estudio de ingeniería encargado de construir el museo Guggenheim, Alberto tendrá que vencer sus miedos para enfrentarse a su amada ciudad, cuya vida sigue condicionada por el terrorismo.

Sabine Kuegler wuchs im Dschungel von Westpapua auf, ihr Buch "Dschungelkind" wurde ein weltweiter Millionenbestseller. Mit 17 Jahren kam sie nach Europa und erfuhr einen Kultur-Clash. Heute lebt sie in Hamburg, hat Kinder, Freunde und Arbeit. Aber noch immer ist sie eine Zerrissene zwischen den Welten und der innere Kampf um ihre Identität quält sie.

Un premier roman saisissant inspiré de la vie de "La Tondue de Chartres", photographiée par Robert Capa en juin 1944, à la Libération.